We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Eternal peace is hell for the adventurers.

There’s no more perfect way to fall asleep than having my arms wrapped around her while I breathe in her peaches and cream scent that is mixed with the scent of us and sweat.

I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.

Respect, brotherhood - the family comes first, and everything else falls in place after that.

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.