Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

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.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

We are wiser than we know.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

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.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The good is the beautiful.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

God does not play dice.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The lie is a condition of life.

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

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

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

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

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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

Nothing in life is promised except death.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.