. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

The root of all fear is imagination.

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

Married to the game. If we're dancing with the devil at least teach us how to dance when the son of making dollars.