The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

To us also through every star through every blade of grass is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options as we have in the past.

It is not enough to understand or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

To become self-aware people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic but fundamental right. Without it human beings are reduced to automatons.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Every year during their High Holy Days the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.