Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

Looper is another great film.

We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.