I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.

Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.

Don't bring me the stars from the sky, I'm planting sunshine in my backyard.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.

I never went wrong by being myself.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

The body and the soul know how to play In that dark world where gods have lost their way.

When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.