At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.

You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.

When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.