We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

My face is shaped like a face, and my body like a body, but my thoughts are very unusual. Piano from the third floor. Daisies on a roof.

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

I'm pretty as a girl.

Forgiving presupposes remembering.

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.