When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.