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

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

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

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.

I used to worry about the labels others placed on me… until I realized my limitations weren’t coming from their labels, but from my own.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

I'm certainly not the lead of the film 'Wonder Woman' and I don't have a problem with that.

Every breath is a resurrection.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair.

I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.

Walk straight ahead look straight ahead don't stop don't pose sharp turns be confident love yourself.

The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.

With great victory comes great sacrifice.