It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.

There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

You're beautiful, Jenna. i'm a man and I'm afraid to admit when I'm lucky enough to look at someone as beautiful as you.

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.