Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

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.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

There is no wealth but life.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

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

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.