Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know.

I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.

We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.

Young people do not like to be always thwarted.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish. So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then Just think, you'll be 70 In just those short years, numbering ten