For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.

Alone in the dark, the Creator lights a flame of fire, to guide my path.

To wisdom there is no end, only acceptance of its limitless range.

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

For some players, luck itself is an art

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.