You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.