Work without contemplation is never enough.

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

when you have a reasonable reason to dare, dare swiftly and unrelentingly

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

Mike Tyson, what can I say about you that hasn’t already been the title of a Richard Pryor album?

I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

You did not mention the name of some rich millionaire just by saving anywhere

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.