Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.