It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

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.

I can't say enough how important is the spiritual lifeto know God is with you all the timegives you confidence

I'll teach you, " Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders."Did your mother teach you?" he asked."I don't have a mother, " she said. "Like you."For some reason, Peter was glad to hear it.

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture.

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.