We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.

Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

I love the idea of a woman's suit, but I wanted something that was a little easier to wear.

Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.