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

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.

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

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.

Onward boldly, pursue your passion.

So long as you are going in the right direction then the speed of your travel is unimportant.

You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.

There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.

The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature

This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best!