One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the time since, and right now, powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry and thought control. It is useful, then, to have a compendium of the thoughts of great men and women of all faiths (and of none) on the subject, to convince us that we men and woman of freedom are not and never have been alone.

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.