We think in generalities but we live in detail.

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.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.

The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain