The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L. A.
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine. "