To receive children’s love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available.

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.

Since we have free will, we create our own reality and virtually everything is negotiable.

And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

If you always say no, you'll never say yes.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.