The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

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.

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.

Dare to feel the joy of life even in the midst of misery.

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.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

I would like to do something a little bit more edgy.

The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still.

Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn