One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them.

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.