Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Real living is living for others.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

To live is to think.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

No violent extreme endures.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

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

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Words are loaded pistols.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.