"Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family."

"Socialism values equality more than liberty."

"People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of."

"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."

"A resilient spirit knows that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The foundation of joy is character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."