For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

In this world there are two types of people: the ones who hurt, and the ones who are hurt. But if we all claim to be the victims, then aren't we all the criminals too?

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

A relationship is built on trust and faith, and not on rules.

Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Language is a living thing

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.