Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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.

I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath

I love Christmas. Christmas is family time.

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.