You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Grace is freely given by God, in sacred moment of salvation.

Motherhood doesn't have a nationality

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.