Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

A person hears only what they understand.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

We moralize among ruins.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Hell is other people.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

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

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.