"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."

"The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find."

"Good music is very close to primitive language."

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."

"I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap."

"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention."

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."