Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

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.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. . . . Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.