The course of our lives can be altered when we receive the gift of knowledge.

We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.

Too many people live miserable lives, but they don’t do anything to change them.

The difference between living your life and simply existing is having the ability to think for yourself, then accepting that you are where you are because of the decisions you’ve made.

Devotion to God brings great delight.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it.