Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].
The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.
Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.
Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk. '
It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.
I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.
There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike. . . No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.
It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.
Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this. . . When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.