The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

If words are the truth, what is living for?

Fifty years of isolating Cuba has failed to promote democracy" Barack Obama, 44th and current President of the USA. "Let's move ahead!" Captain Hank Bracker

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

You never forget your first love.