Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

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.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

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.

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.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Love is the one wild card.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

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

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

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

An overflow of good converts to bad.