I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Conservation must become before recreation.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion

It was a star, " Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.

If we conservatives “of color” refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of “selling out.

One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago.

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

He is in my soul and i am in his, and we are in bed but we are in a desert, and i do not know where he begins and i end - Mac

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.