It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

It’s not one of our finest hours.

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Saddest of all God’s creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson

I think I've been rather reasonable about this whole situation." "How do you figure?" "They are still breathing, aren't they?

Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.