A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

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

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

What we live by we die by.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

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.

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

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.