“Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”

“Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”

“Have I said anything I started out to say about being good? God, I don’t know. A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”

“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”

“Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”

“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”