All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

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.

Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.