Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
An idea is salvation by imagination.