General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Honor does not have to be defended.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

For Man to tell how human life began is hard

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

It is poetry that changes everything.

It was clear that [the number] just kept growing, and there were no [Hillary] Clinton signs. People were fed up.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.