It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

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

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Character is power.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.