The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

If you make time for the nonsense, good or bad, it will continue to seek you out.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.

And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future. I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian) I see. I’m a Toyota. You’re a Lamborghini.(Channon)

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.