Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

No man was ever wise by chance.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

You can stroke people with words.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Our life is made by the death of others.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

To be is to do.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

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.

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

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.