Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.