Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Loyalty, " he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, “But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.

What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.

Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.

One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.