My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.

Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

Publish and be damned.

God's first creature, which was light.

Hope is the seed of liberation.

I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can’t throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins’ greatest hits and chucked it at him.

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.