Words can't save you, but they can give you courage.

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.

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

being honest to the people around you is the best thing you ever do to them, but expecting the same from them is the worst thing you ever do to yourself

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint orthey are not telling the whole story.

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.

The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.