What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first city--and, although we don't like to talk about it all that much, we are all his children.

Education is realisation of our true potential

You cannot withstand continual setbacks unless you've seen a worthwhile vision...

We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I’m taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn’t that like enough?

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

The colder the weather, the bigger the gun Got to rock a lot of clothes if you tryina hide one In June it's .22's, February it's fifths But all year round, it's 616.