“A hard-boiled Islamist whom Hansen and others naively mistake for an enlightened Muslim.”

“When we make our own calculations, we need so many numbers and factors that any mistake is possible. The Lord's calculation boils down to love.”

“There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.”

“I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.”

“On days like today, we need to resolve never to repeat mistakes like that again. We must resolve to always speak out against hatred and bigotry in all of its forms -- whether taunts against the child of an immigrant farmworker or threats against a Muslim shopkeeper. We are Americans. Standing up for each other is what the values enshrined in the documents in this room compels us to do -– especially when it’s hard. Especially when it’s not convenient. That’s when it counts. That’s when it matters -- not when things are easy, but when things are hard.”

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”

“Learn from the mistakes of others and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.”

“The concept of the black and white people boils down to: No light without darkness—You depend on each other!”

“Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities.”

“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.”