But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

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.

Creativity vs. inspiration: inspiration makes a copy, creativity makes something completely new.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon.

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.