As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Sin is geographical.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

The brain is wider than the sky.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

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

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.