“I always pray for God’s guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.”

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

You have yourself to blame.

You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background – it’s very interesting.

It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one’s beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.

There’s no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it’s going to open up for you.

We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.

If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

Every one of us must fight for it, because we’re fighting for our children and the next generation.

America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.

My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I’ve reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years.

Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life – like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

It’s been a wonderful career, I couldn’t ask for anything more.

The bottom line is that TV can either be a great asset to your career, or if you’re a complete ass that people hate, it can be the final nail in your coffin.