I've been living a lie all my life.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

Never stop growing. The world's tallest redwood trees were all once little nuts, that kept growing regardless of weather, trials or tribulations.

An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory.

A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

language is never neutral

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!