The earth keeps turning but it never says why.

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.

We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us.

We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

When every action of yours is preceded by witnessing, then every move you make in this world becomes perfect and significant.

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.