Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.

Perseverance is always the way to go. You have to stay mentally prepared. You have to make sure you have some self discipline in order to recover from injuries.

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

Omigawa is moving forward like a karate robot

I don't have a lot of discipline.

We're the generous country, we're the ones that open our doors to other countries, and in many cases we get taken advantage of because of that.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.