...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

[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 know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

After coming to God and being revived spiritually, every person should grow spiritually

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

You’re only as strong as your biggest weakness.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had

Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.