We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!'

I can't really articulate what I feel.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.