Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.