“It’s a lot better to hope than not to.”

It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they’re especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy, and that’s just a complete lie.

A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.

Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …

We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.

I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.

And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.

Hopeless are those who suffers the curse of heaven-so be hopeful.