The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.

Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there’s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it.

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting that skill.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

I'd just love to see the next Star Wars films when they come out because I'm very into the whole universe and the stories. So they're always rewarding.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.