“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

The best revenge is not to do as they do.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

The first time I do something, I’ll probably be good at it.

I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?

I’m good where I am at this moment.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don’t know it all. I think it’s a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you’ve already done.

You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.

Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What’s lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.