“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”

“personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.”

“Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.”

“He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to think. Franky finds children, by far, much more pleasant and intelligent than most adults, but they are easily ruined by their families, schools, and society. He says one of the ways they are ruined is by being forced to think of all the tasks that need to be done as work, not as play. It takes the joy out of living.”

“A society that is flexible and can change its rules is much healthier than one that cannot!”

“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”