The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to life than you know and it’s all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we’ve developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That’s just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
I’m a big believer that you surround yourself with good people which brings the best out of you.
The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
The inflated imitations of gold and silver, which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt. All scrips and bonds are wiped out. At the fourth pillar dedicated to Saturn, split by earthquake and flood: vexing everyone, an urn of gold is found and then restored.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
