Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

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.

The annoyance you ignore today only gets worse tomorrow. Solve it now.

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.