To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

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.

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.

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

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

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.

It doesn't cost anything to pay attention.

You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.