You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.

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 you don't know what to do next take the oath that will enhance your soul and erase your ego, & from the quiet space inside yourself, you will know what to do.

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me.

I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with.

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.