I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.
Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.
There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.