If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
