A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Adam and Eve had first-hand empirical evidence of God’s existence. He walked in the Garden with them. Their problem was that God told them they could not eat of a certain tree. – p. 113

There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just ate its fruits and roamed its wilds and didn’t need anyone.

I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.

What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

A strong determined spirit is unstoppable.

Make your optimism come true!

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.