Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

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.

Dead. Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.

Taking care of your health and well bring first, is the best way to insure you will be able to care for those you love.

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.