you give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

...and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

Education gives you the power to think rationally, think better, and be productive in every act.

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care

Reflections...passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.

Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization?

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Gotta get up and try.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.