War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.

I wait, wait to hear your silent footsteps. I wait, wait to caress your distant voice.I wait, wait to embrace myself in you.

Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.