Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope.

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.

My grandfather and I were very close.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.