To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

Choose not to prove how wrong others are, but choose to show them on how to be right

Essential to time-management is a change in focus, a change from being ‘busy’ to a focus on outcomes

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

I’ve never really socialized, I’ve always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.