love, real love, comes with three conditions - respect, kindness and trust. It isn't, and should never be, unconditional.

the most important things can't be lassoed with language. The most important things can only be felt.

Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.

We stand at a crossroads. Do we choose 'the will to power' or 'the will to humanity, ' or perhaps a new configuration of both: the power of humanity?

The best to know is to face it, take a next step toward it.

---on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

What your mind cannot master it will eventually resent.

You know my God. My God is called love

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

I've had to remove all mirrors from my home. I just can't seem to look at myself without having to buff the bishop, you know?