A fool is wise in his eyes.

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.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

We are wiser than we know.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

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

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

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

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

No man was ever wise by chance.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.