Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

A joke is a very serious thing.

Win the dreams. Period.

Everyone has the power to make a difference, to themselves and others, and to our world.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

I think that love should be greater than your lust for each other.