No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

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 truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Telling a male lion not to be a lion wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world.

He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing.

The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred.

All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.

I feel like my purpose on earth is to help other people and give good advice about some of the same things I have gone through.