Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

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

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.