Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

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.

I'll go, " he said."And that's safer because?""I'm a guy.""Right, and having a pair of dingle balls makes you invincible how?

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

Who knows the secrets of anybody’s heart.

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

Tennis is physical chess.

I would hate to be on a plane every day.