Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Success is not a stop sign.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Forever is composed of nows.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

Knowledge is true opinion.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.