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

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

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.