The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

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.

There is a silence that comes to a house when no one can sleep. I guess it's the price of love

There's a ton of stuff we can do to help the economy and help the American people, and the aspirational working class of the American people.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

I like glamour. Not afraid of it.

I want to make clothes that make women feel beautiful.

Socialism as I understand it is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.