Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Empire and liberty.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Peace is its own reward.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.