There are no working hours for leaders.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

There are no office hours for leaders.

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding.

Your first step towards perfection is acknowledging your imperfections.

Forethought we may have undoubtedly but not foresight.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

What I want from you, those are just things like this. Not hot things, but warm things.

Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.

I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don't need to show muscle for that.