Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

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.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

The doer alone learneth.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

We moralize among ruins.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Be as you wish to seem.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Sin is geographical.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Small aim is a crime.