There really is nothing like firsthand knowledge if it’s mine.

You can be whoever you want to be. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration and effort.

You can’t spell American without “I can.

Polarization breeds respect..

Polarization breeds respect

I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.

Sometimes it’s nice to remember the little things.

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.

Since humans are social animals, you’re basically only as good as your reputation.

I was nine when I figured out it’s better to be respected than liked.

I’m pretty much the definition of an American Hero.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

She’d forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara’s mother, who had dementia)

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

That which has a beginning will surely have an end.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord.