Galileo Galilei

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Join the dance.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.

Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.