The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Character is destiny.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

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

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.