We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.

Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision. How times have changed.

Fierce faith, hopeful heart

Think neither fear nor courage saves us.Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

We all know what we mean by fighting terrorism. In reality, there is total cooperation between the countries north and south of the Mediterranean against terrorism.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.