The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values - and not just the stated ones.