We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.