The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.
To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.
You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.
Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.