"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth."

"In the tapestry of human existence, every trial adds depth to the design. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow."

"Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature."

"A life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."