Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

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

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Fight with a happy heart.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Our life is made by the death of others.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Man is not made for defeat.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

They do not love that do not show their love.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.