The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

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.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother.

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It’s like distilling something.

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them.

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.

The sight of stars makes me dream.