If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.

How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.

Most animal experimentation is useless.

We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.

The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

The joy late coming late departs.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.