Problems are only opportunities in disquise.

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.

Negotation is a point of interection of common interest.

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

To what do I owe the pleasure?

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.

The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.