Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for 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.

Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.

I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black person in the world or is he the blackest white person in the world?"

Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.

I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone.