We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

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.

Leave footprints of love and kindness on the seashore of humanity.

There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.

I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.

When we attach to a problem, we make the problem worse. When we attach to a solution, we make the problem worse.

Harvest is a joyful time of gathering the produce of the land

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn't had in the - you know, any of the 96 preceding ones.

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

One can not be just if one is not humane.