When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Now is the time to move this country forward.

I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time.

As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

Wake the happy words.