When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...

We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.

Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

Laws can't control the lawless.

All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?

Compassion brings people together.

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.