“Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by – think!”

I would not say that I was, these days, a ‘student’ of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God’s thoughts after him.

In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I’d really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone’s life?

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.

One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people’s freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible.

When that drone shot carried us through the main house with Rosalie, played so unflinchingly-brilliantly by Jurnee Smollett Bell, I signed on for the ride.

Never ‘did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little’.