Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.

To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.