Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.
There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.
My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.
It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.
Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.
Dream Song: In the heavens A noise, Like the rustling of the trees.
