Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

To innovate is not to reform.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Success is not a stop sign.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

No driver is perfect.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.