It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.

What you believe determines the way you feel and act... but it doesn't change the truth.

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.

The first love is the difficult love.

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.