Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Life: composted lessons for our hearts to blossom into our souls.

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.