Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke.

And as we [ the Church] move towards setting new (United Nations') sustainable development goals, we also understand that one of our key priorities is improving social inclusion.

I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.