When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

And now the story begins for the last time.

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

I use my music to tune myself.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.