Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Make your heart, your dearest home.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

I know! WHY! – Am I so catty? – Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? –

When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

The Last Argument of Kings.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.