If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

I love my country, not my government.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

I write out of instinct.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

God uses prepared people.

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.