The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

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.

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

The sky is an enormous man.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

There is that. I might have better luck telling him I’m in love with him. Jace thinks everyone’s in love with him anyway.” “But I,” said Clary, “actually am.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

You might be a redneck if three quarters of the clothes you own have logos on them.

I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

So many people tell me that they aren't creative or they aren't innovative, and it's just not true.