In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.