Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.

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.

There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... "If you're reading this, I'm already dead.

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.