I'm not part of any organization that has initials.

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

You and me, we look out for each other. But I will take care of you a little extra, because I am your person, and you will always be my special horse.

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.

My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.