Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

I am Captain Dakkan. I am in charge of this facility.""Captain Dakkan, " Ryan repeated. "It's good to meet you. I've heard... well... nothing about you...

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

Words could be just as deadly as steel.

Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.