The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.

Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.

The Christian-Judaic God does not exist, and if He did exist as described in the Bible, He would certainly not be a good role model.

Let God grow in you. Hear his voice in your need. Let Jesus resurrect you right now, in this life, even before you’re done dying. Let him put your spirit back in your hungry body.

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

Write a daily gratitude.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Advice to son: Never confuse "I love you" with "I want to marry you."

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now.