Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

If you want to have a golden signature, create a good art!

What you dream of, you will possess.

As a human being, we are on a continuous journey of self-discovery and experience.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

If you don't want somwone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.

Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?