Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

A true man hates no one.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

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

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

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

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Time stays, we go.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Nature does nothing in vain.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

A useless life is an early death.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.