I lost my virginity when I was 6 years old.
We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science
Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature.
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.
As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise. . . The destiny of man, of all men and of each man, is that he is condemned to invent what he will be - condemned if he is fearful but blessed if he welcomes the great adventure. We are responsible in the last analysis, not simply for what we are, but for what we will become; and that is a source of either high excitement or distress.
You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.
As we started working with leaders, providing them with assessment feedback, noticing the impact it was having on them, and their teams, a real story unfolded, and the book All the Leader You Can Be became what it is now - a guide to leaders who want to understand their strengths, and also appreciate how to enhance their leadership.