To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

When you procrastinate you become a slave to yesterday.

If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

The hand is the tool of tools.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face.

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?