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If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone.

I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.