Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

No matter how "normal" people look, living "ordinary" lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too.

When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.

The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Miracle me no miracles.

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.