We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

Until the ‘wrong belief’ leaves, we will continue to be robbed.

The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.

...in those days children were rather out of fashion.

[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it.

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.

I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.