Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.

All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren’t enough, I knewI was in love.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.

Why do these crazy vampires keep trying to collect me?

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.

I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans.