They misunderestimated me.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Be careful whom you confine in.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Everybody has the same amount of time during the day. You can either spend your time or invest your time.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.

I'm a little frail girl, but I like being tied up, blindfolded and gagged so you can't move.

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.