A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Truth is what works.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

What goes up must come down.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

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

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.