The great are not famous, and the famous are not great

Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble.

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.