I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude

I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting.

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Young people must learn that none of the exciting and entertaining fun things are worth it if they take you off the path that will lead you back home to your Heavenly Father.