If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.