Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

We go through life and don't pay attention to God even when he's yelling. Then there are the moments you never expect and can't avoid. It is at those times when you can hear him ever so clearly

You have no right to be silenced.

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.