It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

I always root for the defense.

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

These days I'm pretty much a businessman.

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.