Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

Choice matters. You might have the opportunity to eat a nutritious diet, though you might choose to eat a lousy diet. What matters is the opportunity.

A person in torment is not going to give you anything.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

You never know what you're gonna find when you look under those covers - grandma or the wolf.

Your dreams today are answers to what you are to do, where you are to go and what you have to say in later days of your life.

It is observed that Failed people can give a successful talk on hardwork.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

I just stay fit and in shape.

I'm not really attracted to a big, jacked guy. I think that's a little excessive.

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.