Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

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.

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.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

Seems like people get obsessed about times and numbers and weights and that - I'm obsessed with winning.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination