If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.

Many people are actually poor because the only thing they have is money.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.