He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Law is mind without reason.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

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

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

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.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Forever is composed of nows.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.