For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

Howard K. Smith
Journalist

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.'

Howard K. Smith
Journalist

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Huston Smith
Theologian

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Huston Smith
Theologian

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

Huston Smith
Theologian

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Ian Smith

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.

Huston Smith
Theologian

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Huston Smith
Theologian

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

Huston Smith
Theologian

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Huston Smith
Theologian