Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

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

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

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

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Heaven means to be one with God.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

All men are equal before fish.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

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

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.