Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

That's the kind of guy you'd follow to hell and back.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.