If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Maybe people like us can’t be happy. Maybe we’re too damaged and the only thing we can do is to learn how to hate ourselves a little less.

The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.

You wanna eat? I can hand you a spoon.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

I had lied so much lately that I was honestly surprised my pants weren't literally made of fire.

Virtue is its own punishment.

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

When a woman acts as though she’s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything.