I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And ... not to choose is to choose.

Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves? Either God does or God doesn't, it's just logic. If God has a reason then there is a reason independent of God and whatever God's reason is we should figure it out for ourselves. There is a reason and God doesn't really ground morality at all. God wants us to give charity because it's the right thing to do.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.