If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.

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.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.