When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

Why can’t we all live together in love and in peace?

We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

It's no treat being in bed with me.

And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.

I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to participate in Iraq War.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.