If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil

Leaders don't make others to follow them. Instead they help others to follow their dreams. Leadership is not for takers

It could be worse... It could be raining

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.

You ask me, 'What is the secret of remaining happy and married?'

Your friends may influence your decisions even more than your parents will.