It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

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

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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.

A lie cannot live.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.