People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.