Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral?

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my mouth: "A good man needs to know his limitations."