We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.
I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it’s followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
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.
I don’t believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it’s a shame that we’ve reached a level in our country where we think that you don’t have the right to put your opinion out there.
I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.
I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
I wouldn’t go to war over Ukraine.
We don’t know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.
I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work – books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.
We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it, and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.
What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I’ve advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy.
I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
Our friends can’t trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won’t even give them offensive weapons.
There’s no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it’s going to open up for you.
What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.