What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

While there is life, there is hope.

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing

With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.