We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Christianity is the root of all democracy the highest fact in the rights of men.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing.

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.

The confirmation for both jobs - 'AMC' and 'Smallville' - came through on the same day, so there was a lot of wine flowing in the Hartley house that night!

I am a strong, independent person.

A real man would never abandon his family.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don't.

I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.

I got into psychology simply because that's what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very, like, 'Follow your sister's footsteps.' I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did... really had no interest in it, to be honest.

You don’t need it all figured out. The more you think you do, the more you’ll procrastinate and fear moving forward. Have courage and start now, even if you start small.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.