Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.