"The experience she gained should be invaluable to her continued growth and contribution to our team. In reality, compared to American players, she would just be finishing her college career."

“Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.”

“My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.”

“But music seems to me to be the most closely identified with my soul. I mean, I feel that it’s the best for me. It just gets into the bloodstream so quickly, for no reason at all. You can close your heart, and you can sleep even with your eyes closed, but you can never close your ears.”

“I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.”

“You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.”

Source : Speech in South Bend, Indiana, September 11, 1968, as reported by the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal. p. A3, September 12, 1968.

“Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'”

“There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.”

“You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.”

Source : "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 03, 2013.