[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them?

There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give no peace, will provide no comfort to the living.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.

I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.