It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Silence is the mother of truth.

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

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

History should be written as philosophy.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

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.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.