Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

The row was actually about everything in creation, but it had for its subject of the moment the boy's mustache.

She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.