What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

Our own government has become our enemy.

Turn in your guns at your local church

How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?

Sun shines above making diamonds of lightTink-tinkling, tap dancing, and bright.

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.

Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor.

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.