Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity.

One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.

Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance

Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth.

I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang.

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

If you saw me every day, you would actually think I am wearing the exact same gray suit.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.