A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

Hope clouds observation.

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.