Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.