Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.