We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Life is an experimental field.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.

You can't make homes out of human beings.

I'm in a glass case of emotion