I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Our spirit is universal, all powerful, and limitless. Why do we put societal boundaries around us? They are not boundless.

Perfect God, Prince of Peace.

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.

He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.

Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.