Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon.

94% of psychotics think they're sane, so I guess we must ask ourselves, what is sane?" ~Castiel

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.