Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.

It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.