Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

People always make choices, always take sides!

Abandoning civil society will leave the enemy in control, not by victory but by default.

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.

Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I’m really too young to be feeling this old.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

Go to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.