"Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true."

“Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.”

Source : "The Listener" Magazine, 1978.

“The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.”

“Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.”

Source : Francis Pharcellus Church (2009). “Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa”, p.16, Delacorte Press

“The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.”

“I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.”

“Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1857). “The Creator and the Creature Or the Wonders of Divine Love”, p.58

“Is there some kind of rule for when Sam should be a boy and when he's a Wolf?" "A Wolf lifts his leg and yellows up the snow. A boy has to use the toilet." "And that will work?" "Only if he needs to pee.”

“Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.”

Source : "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.