We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Every year, there's a new idea we can't do and a new technology for something that excites us.
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
The world used us as an excuse to go mad.
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.
No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.
We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we're made out of exploding stars.
