The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.