Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

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

Theology is unnecessary.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

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

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

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

There is no such thing as part freedom.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Time stays, we go.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I bear a charmed life.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

A useless life is an early death.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.