I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.

Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you.

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force.