It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Believers themselves are the point of continuity between creation and the new creation.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.