You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves?

If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.