Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

You must surrender before you can guide.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.