Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time

Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.