From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

Human cloning is coming.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

I want to be very clear - there will be no path to legalization.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

Where they come in the spirit of perpetual giving - the house that love built.

...I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Our purpose is not Oneness but to realize Oneness. Oneness itself is not something to be achieved. We are One as spirit already. What we are working on is to remember and accept this Oneness.

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.