Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.

To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'

I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.

I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in.

Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!

Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.

I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.