The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.

The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

My language is the sum total of myself.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

Hurting someone will not impress them. Intelligence requires empathy to work. Water is wet. The sky is pink through these rose-tinted glasses.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.