People want the truth, even if they disagree.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.