A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Hope is a waking dream.

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.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

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

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

Knowledge is true opinion.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

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

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.