I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I don’t care about money.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

History should be written as philosophy.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Life is wasted on the living.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I like to take it easy.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

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

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.