I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

I must achieve internal consistency.

All perception is a gamble.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Experience by itself is not science.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

All consciousness is consciousness of something

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first...

oh, how bitterhow bitter silentthe bewildered sorrowof a texture too thickto be brought outthrough the eyes.

I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.

I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.