The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called.

When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.

No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.

Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.

I love you so much I could burst into flames.

...[H]uman reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way.

Peace doesn’t deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.

Sometimes I just need to be alone with what I believe in.

Youth is a time of tremendous energy. You should look at the possibilities, not the problems.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

He that is not with me is against me.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?