Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

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.

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart.And now my soul was crying.

The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.

I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.

I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.