"Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures."

“I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.”

“The act is judged of by the event.”

“I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.”

Source : "Back with a bong" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.

“Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.”

“In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.”

“The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.”

“But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.”

“I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe.”