The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

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.

We are one species out of a billion

My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.