It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

If you're not enjoying yourself, you can't really look as if you are.

Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.