“Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.”

“My head questions everything and believes nothing.""So your head wants proof and your heart wants reassurance?”

“...princess play feels like proof of our daughters' innocence, protection against the sexualization it may actually be courting. It reassures us that, despite the pressure to be precocious, little girls are still -- and ever will be -- little girls. And that knowledge restores our faith not only in wonder but, quite possibly, in goodness itself.”

“I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.”

“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”

“All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.”