Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction.

You need to return to the truth of God's Word that will last forever, not meditate on circumstance that will fade and change. It is this truth that enables us to go into the future undaunted.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.