The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.