“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”

“The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.”

“There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.”

“I should have known that at the root of any mystery that's all you find: people doing unspeakable harm to other people. What else on this earth is there to hide?”

“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop those talents.”

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”