You have to pay attention to the road even if you don't know where you're going.

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.

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

The places where trails do not exist are not well marked.

[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?