The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
For scientists, reality is not optional.
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don’t respect his work?
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
Science doesn’t tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world’s best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can’t own.
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need.
Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.