With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
-Steven Weinberg
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
-Bertrand Russell
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
-Miguel de Cervantes
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
September 03, 2006 - 5:18 p.m.
There are no words
My mother is back in the hospital. It probably isn’t any sort of crisis. Her blood pressure dropped and she vomited. I rushed over to the nursing home and rode in the ambulance with her. Alison is with her now. Alison just called me and we had a big fight. So much for my day off. So much for my feeling better. Put a fork in me, I’m done.