Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.

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.

There's no night without stars.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.