The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

You fail only if you stop writing.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Nothing will work unless you do.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Well begun is half done.

My life is a struggle.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

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

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.