When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that's not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

…turning your ankle hurts like hell, even if you're a superhero.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it.

I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she's perfect as she is.

I have a bad habit of playing little emotional games with men. When they date me it's cool in the beginning, we do our thing in the first month, and then I send them on a rollercoaster ride to hell.

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

The cure for moving too fast is just to slow down.