Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.