The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.
If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.
There is little correlation between the circumstances of people’s lives and how happy they are.
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
If pain were water, the world would drown.
Take care of your kid’s character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything.
How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane – not just extraordinary things.
That’s a phenomenon of the Left: You don’t fight evil. You fight carbon emissions.
Most people who call themselves conservatives can’t explain the American value system.
Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
Once one understands that ‘racial tensions’ is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.
Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?
Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc.
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.
The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.
I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled.
Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?
I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. ‘Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested’ is legalized thievery.