There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.

Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.

WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.

The soft bigotry of low expectations

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!