If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings

If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!

Like it or not... that's my story and I can't do that or that each action by itself is a limitation.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

I was told there would be no math

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.