If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

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

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

It is important to remember yourself.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

You have to be someone.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

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.

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

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.