If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

You just have to have a simple faith.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

There is nothing so stable as change.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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

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

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

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.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

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

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.