The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

My head's under water but am breathing fine

Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great.

I always find something to keep me busy.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

I can always tell how stupid someone is by how certain they are about what they're saying.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.