To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.
Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.
...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.
