The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.

The main character of any living system is openness.

Entropy is the price of structure.

(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

The real is only one realization of the possible.

We are called to serve God and not to rely on our achievement in ministry

At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist.

If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?

If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

At my age, I dont even buy green bananas.

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors