When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.

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.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

Love’s voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart

If you lose something, do not worry.

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

Eat good food, keep moving, and let your body take care of the rest.

Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are.

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)