Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.