Wisdom

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.

The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.

The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually set out to get it. That every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.

I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Tolerate the ... Process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.