I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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

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

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

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.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

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

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Thought is the parent of the deed.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.