Some people still think knowledge is power.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

Independence is to have full control of your life to be able to make your own choices and design your destiny.

Life is an incurable disease.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

I guess you're not gonna be happy til' it's for real. Four year old kids, doing drive-bys on Big Wheels.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.