All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

In the space between wake and sleep, where the real world juxtaposes with the imagination, that's where I live.

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.