Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

God sees the workplace of some people as a mission field, where they are to fulfill their calling

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.