After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Strong women, that's who I really respect.

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

I am suspending my presidential campaign.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell.