War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

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.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

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.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

The world is too violent right now.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

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

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.