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

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Time stays, we go.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Life is anything but predictable.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

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’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

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

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

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

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.