The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius."pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.