“It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.”

“You see my adjutant made rather a silly mistake. He hadn't had much truck with boots before and the silly fellow thought they were extra rations. My men ate the whole bag of tricks last night.”

“Remembrance of hopes that were silly has an especial tenderness, for much of their silliness came from a thoughtless credulity which we would be glad to have back again.”

“He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can't imagine a world without hope.”

“Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.”

“Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.”

“The sin is in our thoughts.”

“He considered horoscopes as silly as spectacles on a cow.”

“"From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people." [20]”

“And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.”