An idealist believes that the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes…the short run determines the long run.
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.
The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely.
The three hardest tasks in the world are…moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong.’
When I hear somebody sigh that ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
