Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.

Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.