Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world
Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness
Repetition is the mother of pedagogy
Self-control is the only possible road to character development
Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you