I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.
Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.
There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.
We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.
Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental trials than those of nonbelief. It is quite difficult to ascertain the wishes of an invisible being.
Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.
I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that. . . the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38 - is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities and would not have occurred under earlier monetary and banking arrangements.
We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.