Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

All possibilities I will attemptAnd as I am here now, Knowing what I know now, I have faith in myselfThat I will succeedAnd I will succeed.And I will succeed.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?