Work is of two kinds: first altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second telling other people to do so.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State now 50 States the same way but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

In known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness those are life-altering lessons.

When I was 27 years old I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.