Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.

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 point to life is not only to live it, but to enjoy it.

Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

I am proud to say that the voice of the people of our nation is being heard in this hall and those voices want Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll be there.

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.