Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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

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

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Theology is unnecessary.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

Life is wasted on the living.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

We cannot learn men from books.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.