The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!

Your mind is your world.Your heart is your nature.Your soul is your universe.Your life is your creation.

The sperm donor that impregnated my mother (with me), passed away. Please, stop sending me private messages of condolences. I never met the man.

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.