Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty..

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties..

The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to giv….

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have..

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death..

The bravest are the tenderest..

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Wheth….

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here..

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'..

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing..

By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!.