Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

If we would enter God's reality, all the unknown things would become logical.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

Leave something good in every day.

I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all.

I remember when I met Picabo Street, you know, how in awe I was of her and how much she inspired me, and I really hope to be that for young kids.

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.