To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

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

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.