...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Strong Opinions.