Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.