The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience because words make experience last.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

In a society in which equality is a fact not merely a word words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

After all sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words keeping the asset whole rather than undermining your natural capital.

Listen if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city I got three words: bring it on.

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S. that factors in.

A lot of children like I did move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get detention worrying about letting people down your parents teachers.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.