The many become one and are increased by one.

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.

Dupa ce iti omori demonii, daca ai curajul sa o faci, e musai sa te intorci pe acelasi drum.

If a tree bears sweet fruit, birds have many reasons to visit it.

The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great!

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!

Stop fighting and learn how to communicate honestly with each other.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.