"Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it."

“I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.”

“In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.”

Source : "Kevin Love Announces Return To Cavaliers In C-Rate Version Of LeBron’s ‘I’m Coming Back’ Letter" By Maxwell Strachan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2015.

“Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.”

“Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.”

“Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.”

“The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.”

Source : "The International Herald Tribune" (Paris), June 18, 1991.

“We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.”

“It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.”