What Is A Belief?

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.