Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Quit hating and trying be like the next man. Get on your own grind & be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever just do you.

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

What you consider as real may not exist at all, and what you cannot see today may turn out to be the purpose of your life one day.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

I'm not afraid of aging.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

I wrote the tunes. I was the driving force. The rest were quite happy just to go along with things. But it was more of a democracy then.