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

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

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.

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

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

And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

I should have more vanity.

Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.