At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each

Keep trying no matter how many times you have failed.If you fail, try, try again.Never stop trying.You success will come unexpected.

Life is only a part of Death, not Death is a part of Life..

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.