We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.

Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

I know it sounds very cliché and not very exciting, but if I'm outdoors - in the wild or the ocean or the forest - it inspires me.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

I do not have a daily routine, but each morning, I try to spend an hour in bed, visualizing positive outcomes for my life, health, and career.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.