[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.

It is my sincere hope that every person in India will experience true freedom of faith, regardless of religion.

My smile will always be broken, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to get to do what I get to do.

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.

That means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.

Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

When the curtain falls no one is ready

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.