A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.

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.

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.