A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.

Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?

Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

I like things simple.