We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Don't react to any angry actions, words and behaviours. Keep your quiet spirit, peace and calmness.

A man who wears a sword knows to hold the love of his wife and family dear, for at any time he may not see another day of it.

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.