The more evidence we find to support a hypothesis, the more confidence we have for it. This process also helps to avoid the dangers that come from fishing for data—finding the spurious correlations that might randomly exist but have no real reason or explanation beyond chance.

There is some piece of your consciousness that has no shape, size, weight, or color. This is the piece of you that is of infinite value and dignity.

What makes the Christian different from other men is the 'peculiar,' the περισσóv, the 'extraordinary,' the 'unusual,' that which is not 'a matter of course.

The KGB began stealing semiconductor manufacturing equipment, too. The CIA claimed that the USSR had acquired nearly every facet of the semiconductor manufacturing process.

Unconditional love is love without the conditions—the F.A.C.E. —of ego. Such love is free of fear.

Knowledge of theory is essential, but knowledge of the theory must not have a defensive function: It must not become the successor of a strict, controlling mother, forcing the therapist to accommodate himself to it.

Your lawyer’s job is to tell you the potential legal consequences of a decision or a course of action—not to give you business advice.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Successful cloning is what turns a local taco joint into a Taco Bell or a local clothing store into The Limited, but there’s no point buying the stock until the company has proven that the cloning works.

Love plows open the hard crust of our personality and exposes the fertile soil below. Love decenters the self. It teaches us that our riches are in another.