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.'

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.