The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

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.

When the Dream Giver asked me to give my Dream to him, I didn't think I could. But I wanted the Dream Giver more than my Dream, so I did.

Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead.

If you think shy, you act shy.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.