If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

You can be happy where you are.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.