Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

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.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

She wanted to be her, or be with her, or destroy her.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

There's no map to human behaviour.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Love is the strongest power there is.

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.