In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.

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.

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

Whatever you can dream and believe, you can achieve.

My job, my only job here in this moment, is to love myself and, by extension, to love others. My job is just to live and to realize that to live is to love.

I’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

An oppressed people will always rise.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

I don't believe in dieting, but I do believe in the lifestyle that you want to live.

In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.