Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

To be is to do.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Life is a song to me.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

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

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?