But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.
People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.
I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
