Order is what exists before you start arranging things.

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 doesn't matter how many friends you have on Facebook or twitter, if you have no real friends means you have nothing in your life.

The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never do anything silly like kill each other or fall in love or grow up.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

Never blame what you are on what someone else is.