Great thoughts come from the heart.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.

The best defense is a good story.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.

Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.