A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Like me the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people using their government as an instrument and a tool can do toward building the whole man which will mean a better society and a better world.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.