We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...

When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.