Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

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

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

London is a roost for every bird.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Not all those who wander are lost.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

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

Fate pulls you in different directions.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Life is anything but predictable.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

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

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Life is short, the art long.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.