The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

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.

If you stop feeding strife, it will eventually lead to a peaceful life.

I am not in a relationship

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.

You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.

He who flees at the right time can fight again.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.