The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

I have wondered about time all my life.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

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.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.