The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

People say i need a Doctor!I say i am a Doctor!!

You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.

I am a political person, though not with a big P.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.