The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.

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.

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. Her eyes turned the color of the sea.

Don’t just be everywhere, be everywhere that your clients are, where you matter most.

Rising and falling of my journey made me strive for more in life.

What if I couldn't read? I wouldn't be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster!

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.