I am never going to write about dogs again. You can write about Islam, you can write about sexuality, but no, not dogs.

Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.

I love teaching. I wouldn't take a job that didn't include it.

What I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel.

We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.

Grace is not just enough, it is more than enough. 2 Peter 1:2

Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.