Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Don’t ever play yourself.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Many admire, few know.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Passions are the gales of life.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Life is a song to me.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.