The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

Time should be spent happily without regrets.

Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.

We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.

The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves.

If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.