Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

standing in line is a form of oppression

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more.

I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.

The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms.