Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Whenever I have a problem, I ask the Saint (Thérèse of Lisieux) not to solve it, but to take it into her hands and to help me accept it and I almost always receive a white rose as a sign.