People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

Preaching is truth through personality.

He who manages the distance, manages the damage.