What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Man is a universe within himself.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.