America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality