The strictest judges are ignorant people.

Understanding how little we know is crucial to gaining knowledge.

The older the friendship, the stronger the trust.

Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?

There will come a time when people will realize the greatest mysteries of the universe: will a human then meet anything other than himself?

In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature.

Do not look for company at all costs, and especially do not allow loneliness to lead you to fickle love or false friendship.

Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.

The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.

Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.

Be patient in life, knowing that there is a real possibility that the desired outcome could happen without your direct involvement.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

When you're on a Terrence Malick film, it's like you're part of a family.

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

There is no substitute for knowledge.