It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

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.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

lie can run but they can’t hide

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

Defensively, I think it’s important for us to tackle.

May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.