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

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

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

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

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 blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.