To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Love is the light that brightens every heart's darkness.

Above all, discard the irrelevant.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.