Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

We don't know Where God is, Who God is or What God is… BUT GOD IS!

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more 'approachable.'

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

Partner with churches to assist the poor.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.