I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages

Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.

It will be a beautiful day tomorrow, with the burgeoning greenery of the trees coming alive through the east window of your room – the greenery that will rim the endless sky and our endless love.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.