"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."

“For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.”

Source : "Top 10 PR Blunders of 2013" by Rich Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

“Social media is an ingredient, not an entree.”

“Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.”

Source : "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

“It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (1972). “Christianity at Glacier”

“There is energy and power in a crisis.”

“I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.”

“Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.”

Source : Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.”

Source : "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994.