"A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of."

"The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms."

"Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth."

"Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels."

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."

"In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival."

"Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength."

"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness."