In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'
George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently free. It is an idea too many in government today forget.
The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.
Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.