Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.

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.

If a problem can be solved, there is nothing to worry about. If it can't be solved, well you can always buy chocolate :)

We dare travel on unknown path.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

Life should be touched, not strangled.

For a minute there, I thought I stood a chance. But I guess in the end, Mitchell will still be the lucky one.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.

In 2003, the value of Airbuss orders was more than twice as much as Boeings.

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.