You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.