Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.

I know that God has a plan for my life.

Taylor Swift said haters are going to hate.

I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

Morality established from Science is the key to understanding Coexistence.Science based on Morality is the reason we have prejudice for things we don't understand.

Hope is strong trust in divine power.

The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

Oh my god you're thicker than you look

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

I have to constantly tell my personnel staff, 'Hey guys, we're still a good staff even though we're allowing good players to go play for other people,'

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.