Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyone’s interest

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

The Jews were God's chosen people.

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.

Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

If you want to be successful at being yourself, you’re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.