If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

I’ve told you that I’m a tricksy wight, and I am, my sweet. But there are those in the Seelie Court who would make me seem a very perfect knight.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.

Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

Take a one way trip down to Larry Land!

Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with.