Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

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.

No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.

The start and the end is same for all of us. We were all born, and we will all die - in the same state. It is the journey where we experience Happiness.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

You can't let haters stop you.

In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor.

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

Life's not real easy right now. But I guess I'd rather have it this way than not at all.

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.