Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

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.

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

My name's Peter. Can I play too?

Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.