I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.