Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.