Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

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.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

You are given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

To think of your creations in terms of better or worse- big mistake. They are your children.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.