Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

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 know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads

The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.

In his own country, Death can be kind.

Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be, to everybody's mind, wherever I lived, a Texan.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.