Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.

Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.