When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is especially easy if you have no children of your own.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

The knowledge of God is a sacred pursuit.

He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. “I’ll be damned.”“Possibly. But not today, I think.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.

Wow you need to get some sun.” “Shut up. I'm Irish.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.