To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.

One is only poor, only if they choose to be.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.