Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.
Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.
Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.