Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.
I moved to L. A. because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.
Leave it better than you found it.
My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.
Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.