conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self.

knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials

Reliance on other people's knowledge. . . . buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.

In the aftermath of our errors, our first task is always to establish their scope and nature.

Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

The games we have the ability to play in our minds amaze me.

Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm.

More often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it is really the beginning.

I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk.

The problem is we need toughness. Honestly, I think Jeb[Bush] is a very nice person. He's a very nice person. But we need tough people. We need toughness. We need intelligence and we need tough.

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.