Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind!
One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
A rib. . . loaves and fish. . . some spit. . . God can do a lot with a little.