There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.

Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

There is no one right way to live.

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.