We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.

Your future, hopes and dreams should never be tied down to anybody! The strength lies inside of you to decide at any moment your direction.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

I'm very fortunate to have the support of the people around me, I feel happy because my wife helps me and people who are close.

I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.