Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas Jefferson attempted to excise the Pauline parts of the New Testament. There wasn't much left when he was done, but it was an inspiring document.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.