A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

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.

It’s too bad war gets all the attention

Need is what tears people apart. When you want someone, you never really need them. But as soon as you start need someone, they no longer want you.

Your will to stay gives miracles a reason to show up!

Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.