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.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Daily irradiation of the human body by natural sunlight is an extremely important aspect of human health.

Even her pink bunny slippers seem to prick up their ears.

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

And I'll remember the love that you gave me, now that I am standing on my own, I'll remember the way that you changed me, I'll remember.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.