The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

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 does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

Oh! would I were dead now Or up in my bed now To cover my head now And have a good cry!

There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.

When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

I think you can look at a woman's legs while she delivers the news and still take her seriously.

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.