Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

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.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.

Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys...it's a Mafia thing.

I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.