Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy.

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.

Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

I think I can get five, six, seven more years out of this arm and these legs.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

You know what they say, when one door closes, another Belvedere opens.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.