If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

The self is hateful.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

No man was ever great by imitation.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Things do not change; we change.

Mine is better than ours.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

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

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.