What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight.

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.

A leader must be taught or made to know the importance of justice for the people.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

I've always known my dad is a one-off and his own person. But I feel that underneath he has always loved me.

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.

The soul will always do what it needs to do.