There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

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.

It’s necessary to admit that there's no universal truth about right and wrong when the subjects of your writings come rightly from your heart.

Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean.

Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

Only a sheep with lion's heart can attack wolf, not the sheep with lion's teeth or with lion's claw!

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.