The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Compared to her, Sam ran like a girl and told himself as much.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.