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.

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.