We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business leaders.

Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Abandon everything you have outgrown.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.