The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Not everyone wants to be happy

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 human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life