Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

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.

Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.

There's Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty....

The last thing we can afford right now is to make excuses. We're inexperienced at some spots, that's the way it is. We have injuries, so does everyone, that's the way it is.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

Politicians often lie.

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.