At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

Don't step on my blue suede shoes.

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.