Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.

I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth...treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.