"First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat."

"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them."

"Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."

"Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet."

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."

"It is a enduring truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 13 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 16."

"I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel."