By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.

In the present, every day is a miracle.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.