People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. (p. 81)

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

Whose little boy are you?

...all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

If you cannot do it without money, its passion exists in unknown galaxies than earth's core.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR.

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.