Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

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.

One who conquers fear conquers his greatest enemy.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do.

These guys like each other almost as much as they like themselves.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.