It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent LightMy heart dives.Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia, Are opened wide.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.

Be the hero of your own life story.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.