Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

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.

During Christmas, open your heart with love to appreciate the beauty of life and all the presents that you have received from the earth.

Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

Length of smile get reduced as people grow up!!!

All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip.

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.