The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference.