Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

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.

But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.

Use your art to fight.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

I'm not a Reggaeton artist and I'm not a Crunk artist either.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.