Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Make your vacation your vocation.

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.