Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Science is nothing but perception.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Sin is geographical.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Being is the great explainer.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

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

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Friends are thieves of time.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

States are not moral agents.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.