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.

There is nothing permanent except change.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

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

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Change in all things is sweet.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

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

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I was a thug.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.