Rhonda Smith

“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”
― Bertrand Russell

“While touring areas devastated by California’s wildfires, Trump says, “I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘We have a much different … we’re a forest nation,’ he called it a forest nation. And they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they don’t have any problem.” Trump also refers to Paradise, California, where much of the damage was done, as “Pleasure.”
― Aldous J. Pennyfarthing, Dear F*cking Moron: 101 More Rude Letters to Donald Trump

“Later, when Bob Hope came to visit us, he made a wisecrack about being a Republican and I announced that he would be moving from the Lincoln Bedroom to sleep in Amy’s tree house.”
― Jimmy Carter, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
― Christopher Hitchens