Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

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.

In with the new, out with the old.’ That’s what we’re told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.

Until we learn to love everyone in this universe, how can there be peace?

There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and similarly we all have dear secrets that can be spoken only in the habitat of the heart.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors.

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.

The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition.

Patience is the key to joy.