Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)

Learning to change the world is rarely easy or convenient--it can be complex, costly, and messy.

Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others.

We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.

At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

Injustice is a cold, unrelenting reality. It can be tempting for us to use our comfort to ignore injustice or rationalize it away. But God would have us join His work.

What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother.

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Life's not all about money.

I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives.