Even if you are perfect the World isn't.

Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling.

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

I do not believe abortion should be legal.

I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.

I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.

The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.