What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

There is nothing to lose in this life.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

Give a pup a home and a little love and he will give you his heart forever.