Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

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

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

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.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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