Happiness is a moral obligation

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.

When you are wise, peace shall follow.

Life is too short to spend it living for mundane things

What are you planting today to harvest tomorrow?

And you were always nothing but slime, Henry Wallace. Fancy trash

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.