I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

I supported Donald Trump.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

No one but a fool is always right.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.