There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.

Never lose hope! You are capable of holding on to hope.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.