“If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.”

“Many liberals believe in God; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in God but what text, if any, they believe to be divine. Those who believe that He has spoken through a given text will generally think differently from those who believe that no text is divine. Such people will usually get their values from other texts, or more likely from their conscience and heart.”

“Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.”

“The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.”

“Wisdom begins with reverence for God."No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).”

“All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.”

“The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.”