"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty."
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Source: Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty. The Pew Forum, www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.
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