If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.

Your staying alive means so much more than you really know, or that anyone is aware of at this moment.

We believe each other into being.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

[Based upon the message of "nothing new under the sun" in Ecclesiastes, ] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan.

The purpose of life is to live for others. The moment you start living for yourself, you die before you time.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.