At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.

The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?