I play by the rules even when there aren’t any.

See what I mean? Your confidence is so strong it’s obnoxious.

Do not pay attention to what the people around you are thinking and saying

There's no heaven on earth. God would have to guide her through the problems.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

Christian life consists in faith and charity.

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.

The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution