A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

It's so French to be a cat person.

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

I do like to treat myself, I just don't do it very often.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!