To keep a warm heart in a cold world is the real victory.

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 should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

Miseries of a birth.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

The dollar is the reserve currency of the world.

If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.

The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun.

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.