“The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.”

“The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis”

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

“The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..the worst part is we can't say who is who”

“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.”