Cities get built out of poet's dreams.

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.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

Christianity is living hope.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

You are what you practice most.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.