With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

Of all the crowns that Bruenor had worn or would, none was more important than that of Father.

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

People read fiction for emotion-not information