Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

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.

Your brain loves habits because they are simple, structured, well-known, energy efficient, quick, and automatic.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering but only prolongs life that treatment should be stopped.

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

I'd rather walk than drive a car. In Vancouver, where I am from, you can get to just about anywhere you need to go on foot. Even if it's raining I'll go out for a stroll. I just love that.

Let your life be guided by greatness

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.