What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

Even if you are perfect the World isn't.

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling.

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement.

Goals reveal your path to success, greatness and significance. Become a master goal setter and you will chart the course of your life.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost.

That child of Hell had nothing human

Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!