What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.

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.

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more for anyone can save his purse but none can win back lost time.

If you wished to be loved, love.

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

People always remember the second half.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.