What’s done can’t be undone.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

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

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

You can’t do something forever.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Life is a dead-end street.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.