One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.