There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

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.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.