Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

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.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.