The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.

As hard as I've tried, I don't know how not to be adorable.

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

I haven't been part of the criminal world.