The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

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?

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

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

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

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

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.