It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

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.

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

The biggest and loveliest miracle of today is you yourself!

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to be one of the greatest Africans playing music, who knows?

By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.