A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

If you want to get along, go along.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

I like power and I like to use it.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Any jackass can kick a barn down but it takes a carpenter to build it.

I'm an optimistic guy.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.

I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them but still move on without them.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

I had no desire to be a star and a star's responsibility.

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.

People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?

When we were doing 'Sports Night' and 'West Wing' at the same time, I thought I was the luckiest guy in the world because my two interests were politics and sports.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Todays a great day to change a life. Starting with yours.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. Its fun but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.

What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.