Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

Knowledge comes from leaning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.