Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.

Be the embodiment of success

And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.

I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.

The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

If I didnt do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

No matter where you work or how you feel about the place, bless it with love.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'