Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.

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 is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

Holding on to the weak is called strength.

I find love from time to time.

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.