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.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

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

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Nature is not human hearted.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Confine yourself to the present.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

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.