The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.

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.

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love.

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.

I see Christianity in very humanistic terms.

As long as my husband's looking at me, that's all I care about!

The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president.

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.