The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?

The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.

For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

It’s not love when you don’t feel some pain, Sophie...”Zarah to Sophia, The Forest of Evergreen: Found in the Wilderness

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.

Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.

People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself.

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

Magic clubs have as much to do with magic as country clubs have with being in the country.

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.