My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.
The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.
Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Nothing is more conservative than conservation
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that. . . Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence. . . you wait till later to find out what the sentence means. . . The present is always changing the past.
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
[about Planned Parenthood] It is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism - everything that the Bible condemns.
I know somebody in every culture.