Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.