A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

You owe others a happy disposition

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right