Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

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.

Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.

The result is that the same generation is in danger of growing up with 170 terabytes of knowledge and information, but not more than a few bits of wisdom.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.