Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.