For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.

What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

Vices are not crimes.

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible

Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.