Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears?

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

That the majority of people do not embrace salvation in this life does not mean that their experiences now do not lay a foundation for a later acceptance of it.

If I don't care what toothpaste you use, then why should I care who's in your bed?

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

I'm even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.