The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

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.

I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem.

Start Change Ourselves to Better and Then the Global

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.