People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.

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.

Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.

And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.