It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Our life is made by the death of others.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I’m constantly thinking.