Some people need to open their small minds instead of their big mouths.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don’t put me in danger.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.