Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

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.

Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.