Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

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.

Love is waiting for you, lifting her hand, open your heart and accept it.

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

Your customers get better when you do.

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

If you like yourself, other people will like you

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.