Sincerity That Thinks It Is The Sole

The Acceptance Of Ambiguity Implies More Than The Commonplace Understanding That Some Good Things And Some Bad Things Happen To Us. It Means That We Know That Good And Evil Are Inextricably Intermixed In Human Affairs; That They Contain, And Sometimes Embrace, Their Opposites; That Success May Involve Failure Of A Different Kind, And Failure May Be A Kind Of Triumph.

The Three Hardest Tasks In The World Are Neither Physical Feats Nor Intellectual Achievements, But Moral Acts: To Return Love For Hate, To Include The Excluded, And To Say, 'i Was Wrong'.

Genealogy: A Perverse Preoccupation Of Those Who Seek To Demonstrate That Their Forebears Were Better People Than They Are.

We Can Often Endure An Extra Pound Of Pain Far More Easily Than We Can Suffer The Withdrawal Of An Ounce Of Accustomed Pleasure.

A University Is Not, Primarily, A Place In Which To Learn How To Make A Living; It Is A Place In Which To Learn How To Be More Fully A Human Being, How To Draw Upon One's Resources, How To Discipline The Mind And Expand The Imagination; How To Make Some Sense Out Of The Big World We Will Shortly Be Thrown Into.