Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one.

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage.

When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians' Savior.

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

A lack of empathy is a defining characteristic of the sociopath.

But the combination of modern hyper-parenting and left-leaning professors and administrators has allowed students to remake universities into large-scale editions of the island in Lord Of The Flies.

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist -- meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

Gratitude: Only when people remember the good others have done for them will they have gratitude. Unfortunately, however, most people remember the bad people have done to them far longer than the good. Or to put it another way, gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.

There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians.

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly.

By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left society moves, the more there is government control over its citizens' lives. It is astonishing that this obvious fact is not universally acknowledged and that the Left has somehow successfully portrayed itself as preoccupied with personal liberty.

Big government squashes the human spirit.