All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.

Charles Horton Cooley

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700231.txt

Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Owen D. Young

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Camille Anna Paglia

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

John Shelby Spong

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.Brian Sibley: Or brains even?Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.If you're kind that's it.

Roald Dahl

Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.

Pat Robertson

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Bertrand Russell

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

Bubba Watson

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

Dale Dauten

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Pope John Paul II