Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be.

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.

It is love and reason, ' I said, 'fleeing from all the madness of war.

He owes me nothing, yet gives me everything in return. —SHEA

Haters scream, trying to bring me down, but my Beliebers can scream louder than that and I am proud of that.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!