There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

I am rather inclined to silence.

God always wants us to be growing.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Without tact you can learn nothing.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.