Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

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.

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

... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you’ve made for yourself, you were meant to save it.

The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail and two years later it feels it in its head.

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.