We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.
Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
I have a great relationship with my kids. We're very honest with each other, and I'm very proud that we are absolutely, incredibly close. That to me is more important than anything.
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.
