“The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.”

“Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.”

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”

“True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.”

“One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.”

“Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns. ”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“There is no original truth, only original error.”