I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.

Blaise Pascal

My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober.

G. K. Chesterton

History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

Desmond Tutu

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Charles Simmons

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Yiddish Proverb

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Tom Hanks

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

Kristen Johnston

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

William H. McRaven

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanit? si rivela nel poeta

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

William Styron

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson