We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

If your sin feels "too big," your vision of God is too small.

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.