Quotes from Dennis Prager

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Wisdom begins with reverence for God." No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).

You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

Yes, there is a "secret to happiness"—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.

Freedom comes from moral self-control. There is no other way to achieve it.

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.

The phrase 'separation of church and state,' which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America must never have a state religion, not that the state be indifferent to religion.

Political correctness … is a euphemism for 'that which offends the left.

Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable.

Americans who do not see themselves as victims — of an 'unfair' or 'racist' or 'misogynist' society — are more likely to vote Republican. On the other hand, Americans who see themselves as victims of American society are likely to vote Democrat. Therefore, the Democratic Party and its supportive media cultivate victimhood among almost all Americans who are not white and male.

Whatever sins Christians engaged in the past, and they were extensive, the fact is that the most humane and decent countries in the world nearly all have Christian origins. That is not true of states that grew out of Islam.