Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

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.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Time and space define the sacred moment.

If only I can realize how ephemeral my life is, then I will never be able to hurt anyone.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.

My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.