In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it.

Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

If you're not a target, you're a failure.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.