What can be achieved with suffering can be achieved without it.

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.

With high hope and optimism, start swimming with time.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

Sometimes neuroscientists ask impossible questions.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Repetition is the key to real learning.

I didnt know I was mad about anything. I guess if the New York Times says I am, I must be.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.

The good of a book lies in its being read.