A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.