Trust is not hoping your partner will love you

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Words of the hero: "I am my fate.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

The more you get to know a person, the more attractive they become to you. Because everything beautiful you see on the inside of them, suddenly you see on the outside of them, too.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.