When you act without feeling, that's the living death.

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.

God gives grace to the humble

Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.

I like people who can't die in their bed.

Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be China.

You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.

In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider.

Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.

The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.