“Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.”

“Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.”

“It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.”

“I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.”

“Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”

“Life was, in fact, cheap.If life was such a glorious, magnificent, wonderful thing, then it wouldn't be so easy to take it away.If life was a great gift, then he wouldn't be able to kill a fellow human being with one hand...”