“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”

“I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.”