The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a nightclub in Bali, or slit stewardesses' throats and ram airplanes filled with innocent Americans into office buildings do not do so for any reason related to poverty. They do so because they hold evil beliefs and have deformed consciences

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.