...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

i'm your enemy, meghan. never forget that. if Mab tells me to kill you in front of the entire court, it's my duty to obey.

To hope is a long run but hopelessness is wrongdoing to your soul.

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.