Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

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.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

My love runs deeper than the wounds.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

My dream is to do things until 'I have no regrets'

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.