My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

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.

Keep the momentum while you are moving to guarantee additional motion and momentum.

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Whenever you don't have a good game, whether you're a starter, reliever, whatever, you definitely want to get out there again as soon as you can.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

This is how God made me. You are how God made you. All God's chillun are made how God made 'em. You think God made a mistake, take it up with Him.

When in doubt, make a red painting.

I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.

Jesus doesn't just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.