If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.