Action Quotes

"I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."

"Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."

"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."

"Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings."

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed."

"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

"The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body."

"I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages."

"We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not."

"I do not believe abortion should be legal."

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

"What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television."

"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."

"Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one."

"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."