Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

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.

...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

Or sit they girt by laws unknownWhereto the senses serve as bars –With fire of unrecorded starsThat light a heaven not our own?(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Home is a child's first and most important classroom.

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.