An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

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.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.