In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

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

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.