Ronald Reagan believed that everything happens for a reason and that we should strive to know and do the will of God.

CNN: President Bush: 'Our whole nation grieves'

One reason is that the homeowner business tends to be more profitable, provided that no acts of God intervene.

FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

"'God has a reason' or 'tomorrow will be another day' -- those kinds of things are trite, but they're also impersonal, " says Brandt.

CNN: 'You're going to die the way you live'

I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank him, that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on Earth.

CNN: McCain: Change is coming

To see the universal arguments about the individual and society, God and reason, good and bad and so on, and thus escape from the binding imperatives of the now - by which I mean the dictatorship of whatever ideas are most pressingly forced on us in the day-to-day by government, media, fashion, political correctness and so on.

BBC: Why does France insist school pupils master philosophy?