We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.