You reach a point where the pain gets so acute you do not feel it anymore, but to reach that point, you experience so much pain that you're unable to forget the suffering that led you there.

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.