I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

No one but a fool is always right.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Knowledge is power.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I do believe in self-help.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.