What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.

Prejudices are holes in people's general knowledge, filled with negative nonsense.

Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.

Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.