The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.

We pass through this world but once.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.