Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

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.

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

He's one of the biggest whingers in world football... he's a bloody eejit.

The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

Life is not a solitary activity. Live well by living for others.

As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.