The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated.

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.

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

The European public has always been great to me.

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Money can't buy you happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places.

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.