For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

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.

Live joy. Be kind. Love unconditionally.

The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

What should I take? Something that will not be missed. In the wood at midnight, a magic flower.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.

What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.