The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

Aspirations forms the plot of success.

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.

Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.