“Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It’s all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there’s one fact that I’ve learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it’s that nothing has ever grown without changing.”

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama’s future than an investment in education.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don’t waste anytime thinking about future elections until we’ve done our jobs here.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities.

One person can make a difference. In fact, its not only possible for one person to make a difference, its essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

I’m a living abortion.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of ‘If a man die, shall he live again?’ is just the way you feel inside you that nothin’ can stop you from livin’ on.

Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living.

Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.

Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.