Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

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.

When creativity is running rampant, it is imperative that we get carried away by it never knowing what we will create or whom we will inspire!

I would rather know than believe.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."

I'm like a shooting star! I've come so far! I can't go back to where I used to be!

In every country, it's different, and you have to be flexible and slow and careful, and in the end rely on the experience of others who have gone before you and have begun to figure these things out.

What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.