The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

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.

The two things that truly belong to ourselves are our thoughts and actions.

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

Somebody should talk to Dan Quayle and tell him natural blondes don't have dark grey stripes on the sides.

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece. My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.