Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

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.

Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist--for we would be no longer who we are.

Whatever will be, will be, if and only if you let it be.

Without the love of a woman, it is impossible to have a manly world.

My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.