It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

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.

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to that alone Laughs at impossibilities And cries it shall be done.

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.