The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity.The human spirit then dies and the animal in us returns.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.

Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!

I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.