We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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

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.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Defending peace is the duty of all.

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.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.