Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don’t be shown up by a baboon

We don’t live in a free market society… markets are controlled by the major players who influence legislation to perpetuate their control...

Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.