If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

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.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.