We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

I have a hunch that the last institution around at this moment which has a high doctrine of sex is the Church. We still believe sex is a good gift from God but it needs to be in context of a committed, loving, continuing relationship.

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

Hope is simply an anchor that we hold on to, as a way of envisioning the brightness of our future.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.