Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himselfThe beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Man lives for science as well as bread.