The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there.

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 hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

High school will probably be better. I mean, some kids will still be jerks, but it's not so bad if you have at least one good friend. Someone who gets you.

Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind.

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

You are ten times more likely to get hit by a car when the driver is aiming for you.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.