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

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

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.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Never take anything for granted.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Life is precious.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.