It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.