The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name

These days no one challenges us, ' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.