Make your breaking point your turning point.
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections. . . What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself.
If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.