Those whom the gods love grow young.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Truth is what works.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

All mankind love a lover.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

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

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Smiles are the language of love.

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

They do not love that do not show their love.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.