The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.
I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.
They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.