You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are a member of a chosen people, awash in the salacious exports of an evil culture that is turning your children away from God, believe that you will be rewarded with an eternity of unimaginable delights by dealing death to these infidels—and flying a plane into a building is only a matter of being asked to do it.

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.