Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.