Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.

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 favour of God, forfeits the failure of men.

What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

We are going to have to do some real soul searching as a country and try to bring America together, because it is divided.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.