The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it

I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.