I lived to write, and wrote to live.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

To know her was to love her.

And the Sabbath bell That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical most melancholy.

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, as summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.

I don't think there is much American music.

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence simplicity does.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

Marriages come and go but divorces are forever.

There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world.

Let the sun shine on me, for I care not for the moon

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

I'll give my heart and soul whenever I step on that field and even when I'm on the sidelines. And at the end of the day, that's really all you can ask of someone.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.

Having no experience in running a business, President Obama just doesn't get it. In fact, he fights against it. Just recently, he said, 'If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.'

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

It sounds sweet when, after a long time, people talk good about you, especially when you have done a lot for the country and played with distinction. It's good; it's a good feeling.