The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.
Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.
Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.
The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.
Speak with the language of love.
Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.