influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think—but further connections will not.

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

You don't give something away because it's fat. You take it and you look at it.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

Convince yourself that everything is alright. Cause it already is.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.