I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

I think the greatest threat to the privacy of Americans is the drone, and the use of the drone and the very few regulations that are on it today.

Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?

Be proud of who you are.

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?