Words are loaded pistols.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

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.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Sometimes I wish my first word was ‚quote,‘ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‚end quote.‘

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Language is the dress of thought.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.