“The existence of diverse opinions troubles me but it's the fact that everyone claims to be right that terrifies me”

“Some people spend their whole life trying to be liked by others. Some people spend their whole life hoping to be liked for not trying to be liked by others.”

“You can achieve the highest level of academic, financial, physical, emotional and spiritual success but you won’t achieve true harmony until you cook your own meal.”

“Alas! Alas if your unshakable view of the world relies on your circumstantial receiving of charity!”

“Strive for political ideaology but do not hinder progress in the name of your ideology. That would simply be selfish.”

“If the driving force behind bettering human life is our insatiable desire to escape mortality what will we do when we succeed?”

“I picked up scallop shells in diverse colors and sizes — warm reds and yellows; cool, stippled grays — and reflected on the diversity of God’s creation, and what might be the use and meaning of his making so many varieties of a single thing. If he created scallops simply for our nourishment, why paint each shell with delicate and particular colors? And why, indeed, trouble making so many different things to nourish us, when in the Bible we read that a simple manna fed the Hebrews day following day? It came to me then that God must desire us to use each of our senses, to take delight in the varied tastes and sights and textures of his world.”