The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents.

It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.

If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.