You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after, be a kinder person because of it...

But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as ourgame plan ever was—to make food that tasted good.

Why should we change that which makes us unique?

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.

It's easy to clean up when you got money.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.