Where there’s no free will, there’s no sin.

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

Your soul is bigger than your programming.

We are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?

Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could—to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.

…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us.

Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive.

…one world’s poison might be another’s salvation

Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.

This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.

Abel. I can’t let you…sell your body.”“The transaction is closer to a rental.

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine.

It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.