One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

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.

Two is not greater than three, even for extremely large values of two.

I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

Sad when you spend more time trying to stay alive than living.

Just because some of us make a mistake in love once doesn't mean we're doomed to repeat it.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic.

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.