“The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”

If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

A picture is worth 1,000 denials.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit.

We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.

If you think you can – you can!

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah..

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.

Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.

The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people – create internships, for example, even if it’s only half-time.

Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.

The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart.