Learning to change the world is rarely easy or convenient--it can be complex, costly, and messy.

Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others.

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)

We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.

At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

Injustice is a cold, unrelenting reality. It can be tempting for us to use our comfort to ignore injustice or rationalize it away. But God would have us join His work.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Are we turning back? Because if you’re just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I’m desensitized, trust me—that ship has sailed.

There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled.

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.