The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

One of my greatest failures: I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.One of my greatest achievements:I have learnt to ignore my futureless past.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

Only speak words that make souls stronger.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.