There is no nature at an instant.

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.

The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

There are no shortcuts to success.

Live to fight another day on better legislation.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

To become a champion, fight one more round.

We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.