Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Life loves the liver of it.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Forever is composed of nows.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Sin is geographical.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.