Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

A journey is the way to see and feel the diversity of humanity.

I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.

The Christian life isn’t a playground but a battlefield.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

Look out for your baby or your friend, of course. That is easy. The test of moral fiber is to stick up for those you relate to least, understand minimally, and do not think are that much like you.

I'm feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.