Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Freedom is relative.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

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

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

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.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.