It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

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.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique.

What is true belongs to me!