They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no su… - Orson Scott Card

“Don’t press her,” said Cooper. “If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.”

And I says back to him, “Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,” and he says back to me, “I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,” and I said, “Why?” and he says to me, “Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.”

It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.