Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty to help build a strong middle class to help educate our kids and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing competing with and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

Hope is a state of mind not of the world. Hope in this deep and powerful sense is not the same as joy that things are going well or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

By having a reverence for life we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good deep and alive.

What is the good of your stars and trees your sunrise and the wind if they do not enter into our daily lives?

No man is excluded from calling upon God the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in save only our own unbelief.