Church! she cried. Why would I ever go there? I was already feeling terrible about myself. They’d just make me feel worse.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of info...
Today I am even richer.
Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.