Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

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

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

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.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

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

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

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

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I am in my own head most of the time.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

The lie is a condition of life.