Anyone who wants to call themselves a philosopher should at the very least be engaged in the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, and a deeper under­standing of the human condition.

You can learn things from reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being that you would never glean from any scien­tific tractate. And you can see things through the Hubble telescope that no amount of poetry could ever disclose.

A good poem is laparo­scopic surgery for the mind: it only requires a tiny point of entry, but once it gets under your skin it can transform you.

Life is a series of events and choices; you can’t control the events, but you do have a say about the choices you make.