Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

The world which worships Mother Mary and goddess Durga also has experienced such heinous crimes against her daughters.

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

That's the first thing they teach you in bowling, by the way. Don't press the ball against your nose. The other one is don't lick the pins.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.