"Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract."

"If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering."

"Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion."

"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?"

"The echoes of eternity remind us that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"It is a unyielding truth that a quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little."

"It is a profound truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition."