If words are the truth, what is living for?

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.

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

I think when I was 12, when, like, 'Titanic' and 'Romeo + Juliet' came out, my friends and I made our own Leonardo DiCaprio fan club. I definitely had a thing for him.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.