To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.

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.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon.

Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.

The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.