"Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics."

"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage."

"In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective."

"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the beauty of life is found in its imperfections."

"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."