Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

Start slow, then taper off

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want - and the feeling of having it already.

I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.