Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.

It is true that you may have lost some time in the past. You may have allowed your life melt away with your time, but the good news is that you still have the future.

There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

Who stops learning may be old.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.