“I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.”

“You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.”

“I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who wants to be ethical, evolved, yet not at all an oil pan for the machinations of the morally corrupt.”

“Regarding Christians who feel they have a free pass on being criticized; When the blind worship of an invisible being and the doctrine of millennia-old texts written by ignorant men in another country becomes more important than real, present human beings, then the blind worshiper SHOULD be shunned and criticized. It would be unethical to respond otherwise.”

“It's one thing to say you think someone "hung the moon" but that generally means you are blind and deluded, and then the relationship fails because they say you changed, when really, they never saw you at all...The real test is if someone sees all your flaws or blemishes or individual differences, and they still think you hung the moon.”

“That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.”

“What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.”