We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Love is a state of being.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

Religions get lost as people do.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Seeing is not always believing.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

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.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

The lie is a condition of life.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I’m not the most patient of people.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.