Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

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.

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...

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.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.

I want to be the man. I want to do what it takes to win.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

If you don't have voter ID, you can just keep voting and voting and voting.

Cameras intrigued me.

But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.