If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.