Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.

When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is especially easy if you have no children of your own.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.

A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.