[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

To progress isn’t a little step, it’s a pretty dramatic lifestyle change.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

A manager says 'go,' but a leader says 'let's go'.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.