Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

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.

Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare?

What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.

I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don't have.

Sometimes people are often confused between attitude and style. Nevermind, I'm Awesome.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Models are what they are... people who model clothing, that's all.

Mistakes are about getting the blessing in the lesson and the lesson in the blessing.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.