The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family...

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

We are always the same age inside.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.