Philosophy gives life to life.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

When someone makes you a priority it is Great! When you make yourself a priority it is Brilliant!~

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.