No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

To serve does not mean just to attend church services

What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.

She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead, he seemed to land heavily within her, like a black stone falling.

Jihad is misused by fundamentalists. The Quranic meaning is not meant for war at all, in the sense of killing.

What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.

I don't know why that putt hung on the edge. I'm a clean liver. It must be my caddie.

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.