Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Mixing oil and testosterone can be dangerous.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.