The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.