The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.

Stop worrying about where you are at the moment and start getting excited about what the future holds for you through consistent actions and faith.

I am mad, and I embrace it.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.