Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.

If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

Money may not be able to buy you love, but conflicts about it can certainly bankrupt your relationship.

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.

...there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

I'm sure I could fall in love with a Democrat as easily as a Republican. Some things transcend politics.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.

Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

I favor an aggressive expansion of America's intelligence capabilities domestically and around the world.

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

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