What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
We are shaped by our conversations.
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
We convince by our presence.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.
