[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

[V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history.

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy.

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?

[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.

Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.

This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

Some falls the means are happier to rise.