‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Africa is on the rise.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.