The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings.

...[H]uman reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way.

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.

...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.

...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.

The row was actually about everything in creation, but it had for its subject of the moment the boy's mustache.

You are educated when you learn to coexist with othersAnd as a result you enhance the whole existence.

Either you run the day or the day runs you

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.