There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Being is the great explainer.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Those whom the gods love grow young.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

I do believe in self-help.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.