Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

If you only knew all the love that I found, it's hard to keep my soul on the ground.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.

The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure.

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.

It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.