If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.

If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government,

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.