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.

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.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

The eye fixed on Christ sees clearly, succumbing to neither pride nor inferiority, because it is not concerned with the self at all.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

The past cannot be allowed to repeat itself.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?

Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.

There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.

I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.