Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Honor does not have to be defended.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

She's a princess and you're a jock, " he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. "And you're a brain. And you're a criminal. You're all walking teen-movie stereotypes.

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.