Only a fool can believe people are basically good

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

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.

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

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.