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.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

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

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.