The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.

Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.

Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God.

Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness".

Alan Rittenhouse: I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right?

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

I take being a role model seriously.

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.