I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

Employment bargains your life and time for a piece of currency

But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.

A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.