It just so happened that the Civil Rights Movement was the perfect thing to help him bring his cause to life.

So, everybody's betting their life on something, and when I, you know, made a bet, I happened to believe that Jesus was who he said he was.

I happen to find that particular staircase picture very glamorous because, to me, it captures the whole promise of the academic contemplative life but maybe that's because I went to Princeton.

Nature didn't need to because, unlike the abalone shell, the survival of a species didn't depend on building those materials, until maybe now when it might just matter.