The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I give opinions, not advice.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

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?

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Time stays, we go.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

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.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Observe all men, thyself most.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.