Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof

Is apathy not the nature of God?

The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.

A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.