Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

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

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

Love is ignites the light in the spirit

The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

I have great respect for the people in intelligence and CIA. I don't have a lot of respect for in particular one of the leaders. But that's OK. But I have a lot of respect for the people in the CIA.

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

I'll never forget my wedding day... they threw vitamin pills

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.