It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.