A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.