To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

You call me at 12am or 3am I will pick up your call. Once I make a commitment, I don't go back!

Quality is better than quantity.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.

I don't dig ditches for a living, so I don't really hate going to work. I chose this for a reason. I would much prefer to be over-worked than under-worked.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.