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.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

What we live by we die by.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Who, being loved, is poor?

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Being is the great explainer.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

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?

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

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

We will always be a family. Always.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.