Skeptical scrutiny is the means in both science and religion by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

I really have always wanted to be a parent and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl a Japanese girl an American girl a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

When I was in my 30s I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until by our own lives and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

If you have parents with a healthy relationship you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.

I've thought about it not a lot but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything but at least they'd be willing to try.

Creatively I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

I'd never really thought about it before but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship and I thought that was the most important thing.

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Liberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are you would never think a negative thought.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

To achieve you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

After I became a citizen I felt freer to say what I thought about this country both negative and positive. I think I had been consciously and subconsciously biting my tongue in the past.