Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

I think that in many ways, some of those who did vote for Trump are sorry that they did so. But the hope, at least, is that we have a chance to make up for those kinds of mistakes.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.