We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...

...as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing older because he begins to look like his father.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it.

I always saw myself as a big-nosed, big-eared kid. I've never tried to kind of capitalize on that stuff. I think a lot of people do when they can.

It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider