history has no overall direction or purpose

Individuals create themselves through their moral choices. By freely and repeatedly choosing certain sorts of things, an individual shapes their character, and through their character their future.

all living creatures are entitled to respect in their own right, not simply because of the utility they may possess for other humans.

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

I've got friends in the different teams I've played for, but family is the most important thing to me. That will always be the case.

There's something going on and it's bad. And I'm saying we have to get to the bottom of it.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.