There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Confine yourself to the present.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

What goes up must come down.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

And yet it moves.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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