How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

I dig and plough at your command, ' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these besti*l men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.

God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.

Light, Amie, can be blinding when it first comes on. Lasers can be deadly, even when streaming from benevolence. We need perspective. We need it to seem wiser than us, tested and tempered by time.

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. des fieri sentio et excrucior.I hate and I love. You may ask, why I do this. I do not know. But I sense that I do and it pains me.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth.

Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.