In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices, our lives in effect.

It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.

Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.

To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.

What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.

My wife said to me: 'If you won the lottery, would you still love me?' I said: 'Of course I would. I'd miss you, but I'd still love you.'

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.