Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

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.

Everybody is talking about the Law of Attraction. Nobody is talking about the Law of Action.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.